Editor’s Note 03/26/20: Buncombe County, NC Government is experiencing delays in their processing of records requests due to the outbreak of COVID-19. We received this information in an email from Buncombe County PIO, Kassi Day on 3/20/20 related to follow up we sent on another request – the contents of that email are pasted below:

“Hello Sunshine, at this time the Emergency Operation Center has been activated for Buncombe County and we are currently responding to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak. If your request is related to something other than COVID-19, our response is likely to be delayed.”

Keeping this update in mind, Sunshine Request will be putting all Buncombe County Gov related request follow ups on hold for a couple weeks. We will plan to check back in with Kassi again later in April. Additionally, if we receive any new requests for Buncombe County Gov, we will continue to send them in as usual, but will note that it could be some time before we receive a reply.

We’ve received a new public records request via our website www.sunshinerequest.com for information that may be available in your office.

Please confirm receipt to let us know the request will begin processing, and if possible, please provide a rough estimate of when the request may be completed. We will plan on following up again around that time.